As the UN Loss & Damage Fund starts its first board meeting tomorrow, Climate Home News asks: what happens when scientists say a drought with severe local impacts is caused by #ElNino , not climate change? Should it be excluded from funding? Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) climatechangenews.com/2024/04/29/dro…

📜NEW BRIEF: Ahead of the first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund —which takes place from the 30th of April to the 2nd of May in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪— we have compiled a set of key messages for each agenda item.

🔗Read them here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/ke…

Our first-hand account of the failed solar geoengineering resolution at #UNEA6 is up legal-planet.org/2024/03/07/cou… Maybe of interest to Jesse Reynolds Pete Irvine Aaron Tang Jeroen Oomen Ina Möller Jennie C. Stephens Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative amongst others

In laying out his vision for #COP29 , its incoming president, Mukhtar Babayev, acknowledged in Berlin that finance is “one of the most challenging topics of climate diplomacy”, adding that there are “strong and well-founded views on all sides”.
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A world powered by renewables is a world hungry for critical minerals. To tackle that, the UN just launched the Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals. Let us explain what they are 👇 buff.ly/3vY7sF6

The Global South now repays more in debt than it gets in grants & loans. This is beyond all reason.
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I am tired of hearing that #CCS will be necessary for 'hard to abate' industry emissions.
Thanks to IEEFA.org for explaining why CCUS will NOT play a major role in steel decarbonisation.
CCS remains a dangerous distraction.
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Our webinar last week, 'Palestinian Liberation and Climate Justice: Imagining a Palestine without Occupation' was a really special one. Educational, inspiring, and a needed conversation for this moment. Check out the recording below. #PalestineWillBeFree youtube.com/watch?v=ns3zvf…

How can donors better understand and support movements?

-Rethink established processes
-Build trust and mutual understanding
-Resource new organizations

Read more in our research on popular organizing and philanthropic funding in Asia and the Pacific: thousandcurrents.org/unpacking-popu…

1/9. 📜NEW BRIEF: Ahead of the first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund (LDF) the importance of establishing robust, inclusive mechanisms for meaningful participation can't be stressed enough!

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Opinion: PPPs’ private gain at public expense. This purported PPP solution has worsened financial vulnerabilities in developing countries, also undermining sustainable development and #climate justice.

#Finance

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#UNFCCC ’s Standing Committee on #Finance meeting discusses mandates from #COP28 .

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On finance day #COP27 the need to make finance flows consistent with low-emission climate-resilient development is as clear as the need for developed country scale up of climate finance. A new paper on perceptions and options for 21c in the NCQG #ODI odi.org/en/publication…

As negotiations for a new collective #climate finance goal kick off this week in Cartagena, some infographics on why it is important to focus on multilateral PUBLIC FINANCE as the core of the #NCQG . Check-out
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC
Charlene Watson
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It was a pleasure to take part in the #FixTheFinance webinar (link below) with Andreas Sieber Harjeet Singh Teresa Anderson @ericdnjuguna and others speak on how to advance climate justice through progressive taxation, including of profits from carbon pollution.

'It said climate spending could bankrupt developing countries due to huge debt costs and called for debt forgiveness for those most at risk,' says Lidy Nacpil in this comment piece for @climatehome
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🚨Scoop: at #COP28 , the U.S. is set to undermine the need for strict regulations for the new international carbon market. It is backing a largely unregulated, voluntary system of credit trading. For The Lever, based on an internal EU Council document
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The world’s most vulnerable countries and communities need support for renewable energy development. Yet the dominant form of support is all about ‘de-risking’ finance, which is more about guaranteeing corporate profits than delivering sustainable energy. tni.org/en/publication…

It's important to remember that Edward Said taught at Columbia for 40 years. Columbia has a Centre for Palestinian Studies due to his scholarship. He unabashedly navigated those wretched spaces; confronting and exposing what no one else would— to build an entire new discipline.

In 2014, when G20 and BRICS were obsessed with creating an international market for infrastructure finance, I explained why this would be impossible without fixing the financial system. us.boell.org/en/2014/04/01/…